Dick Gregory People Quotations

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.